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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 
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Suggestions That Help My Children to Paint Well 



^"VlWEFORE sitting down to paint see that you have all the materials that you will need: 
^^|f paint, brushes, a glass of water, a piece of blotting paper, a clean cloth on which to 
^^Qr wipe your brushes, a small sponge, and a piece of white paper upon which to " try " 
your colors. 

Red, blue, and yellow, are the primary colors. 

Orange, purple, and green, are the secondary colors, and are made by mixing the primary 
colors as follows : Purple — red and blue ; Green — yellow and blue ; Orange — red and yellow. All of the 
various shades and tints may be obtained by mixing the necessary colors in different proportions. 
For instance, Browns are usually formed by mixing red, yellow, and black. If you wish a reddish 
brown, add a larger proportion of the red. Keep "trying" it on the paper until you get the exact shade 
that you need. For a yellowish brown, add more yellow ; and for a dull, dark brown, increase the 
quantity of black. A light shade of any color may be obtained by adding water, and so thinning 
the color. 

FIRST, study the picture and the little guide before you begin to paint, considering carefully 
the colors that are to be used and the particular spaces that are to be covered. Then pick out the 
primary colors, if any, and determine which of them you will put on first. Mix this color in the 
paint-box tray, and "try" it upon the extra piece of paper. In "trying" the color, do not fail to let it 
dry before you decide which shade shall be used. The temperature, and the moisture in the air, cause 
the colors to dry differently at different times. 

It is always best to begin painting with the primary colors, for then a wash is left standing in 
the paint-box tray which can be used in mixing the secondary colors. 

THEN fill your brush and begin to paint at the top of the picture. In coloring the larger open 
spaces, like the sky and the green grass, try not to let the brush actually touch the surface of the 
paper, for wheresoever the brush rubs the paper it will leave a streak behind it — especially if the 
wash is thick. To apply the color evenly, roll the water-drop at the end of your brush in a sort of 
"wave" from the top of the picture downwards, moving the brush from left to right. Never draw 
your brush back and forth across the page. 

Keep the color within the printed outlines, and allow it to fill the space evenly. If the color 
goes over the outline in places, it can be easily removed with a clean, wet brush and the blotting paper. 

If a wash in your paint-box tray is so large that it will require many brushfuls of paint to mix 
another color, soak up most of it with your sponge, and leave only as much as you will actually need. 

Always clean the brush before applying a second color. ALLOW ONE COLOR TO DRY 
BEFORE PUTTING ON ANOTHER. Do not in any case run the colors into each other. 

Never paint with a dirty brush ; always use a glass of clean water to wash your brushes. 
Change the water when it becomes discolored. Never put a brush into your mouth. 

Never put your brushes and paint-box away dirty. 



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MY BED IS A BOAT 




y bed is like a little boat; 

Nurse helps me in when I embark; 
She girds me in my sailor's coat 
And starts me in the dark. 



At night, I go on board and say 

Good night to all my friends on shore; 

I shut my eyes and sail away, 
And see and hear no more. 

And sometimes things to bed I take, 
As prudent sailors have to do; 

Perhaps a slice of wedding-cake, 
Perhaps a toy or two. 

All night across the dark we steer; 

But when the day returns at last, 
Safe in my room, beside the pier, 

I find my vessel fast. 






2CI.A416016 



OCT 21 1915 




My Children's Robert Louis Stevenson Paint Book, Copyright, 1915, by Lloyd Adams Noble. 



Curtain, light brown 
$)0y$ hair, dark brown 
Teddy blar., light brown 
Tacls and hands, v&ky 
light rld. 




lursl's hair, dark brown, 
nurse's dr£55, bright blul. 
Plain squares in quilt, 
bright blue, 




THE SWING 

ow do you like to go up in a swing, 

Up in the air so blue? 
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing 

Ever a child can do! 



Up in the air and over the wall, 

Till I can see so wide, 
Rivers and trees and cattle and all 

Over the countryside — 

Till I look down on the garden green, 

Down on the roof so brown- 
Up in the air I go flying again. 
Up in the air and down! 





My Children's Robert Louis Stevenson Paint Book, Copyright, 1915, by Lloyd Adam 



l&av&s, gt^ln- 
Sky, slue. 

BoY\S 5H0E/5, GROWN 
Tr&es .LIGHT G^EEN 
Gf^ASS, VERY LIGHT GREEN 
RpOFS, LIGHT BROWN 

Top of wall, light gray 




BoYl5 HAITt BROWN. 

FaCL, HANDS AND BAF£ 

LEGS, VERY LIGHT KEJD. 

-SwiNG SEAT AND ROP&S, 

BROWN. 

5T0N&S IN SIDL OF WALL, 

LIGHT B^OWN. 




MY TREASURES 

^hese nuts, that I keep in the back of the nest 
Where all my lead soldiers are lying at rest, 
Were gathered in autumn by nursie and me 
In a wood with a well by the side of the sea. 

This whistle we made (and how clearly it sounds!) 
By the side of a field at the end of the grounds. 
Of a branch of a plane, with a knife of my own, 
It was nursie who made it, and nursie alone! 

The stone, with the white and the yellow and grey, 
We discovered I cannot tell how far away; 
And I carried it back although weary and cold, 
For though father denies it, I'm sure it is gold. 

But of all my treasures the last is the king, 
For there's very few children possess such a thing; 
And that is a chisel, both handle and blade, 
Which a man who was really a carpenter made. 




My Children's Robert Louis Stevenson Paint Book, Copyright, 1915, by Lloyd Adams Noble. 



Sky. fiLUL 

Grass, gre&n 

Chisel, brown 

Boy, mown 

Nuts and vhistlx, brown 

Dog, brown 

Floor, light mown 




l/e/avls, green. 
Hair, brown. 

JaCE, HANDS AND LEG3. 

very light red. 
■Suit. blue. 
-Stem or vine, dark 

BROWN. 

-Shoes, brown. 




MY KINGDOM 

^own by a shining water well 
I found a very little dell, 
No higher than my head. 
The heather and the gorse about 
In summer bloom were coming out, 
Some yellow and some red. 

I called the little pool a sea, 
The little hills were big to me; 

For I am very small. 
I made a boat, I made a town, 
I searched the caverns up and down, 

And named them one and all. 

And all about was mine, I said, 
The little sparrows overhead, 

The little minnows, too. 
This was the world and I was king; 
For me the bees came by to sing, 

For me the swallows flew. 




My Children's Robert Louis Stevenson Paint Book, Copyright, 1915, by Lloyd Adams Noble. 



Sky, light ylllow 

Boy's hair, light brown 
Grass, dark grdbn 
Stick, light brown 
5tone,s, light brown 

Tb0L/, LIGHT YLLL0W- 




TrE/LS, WHITE,, WITH LIGHT 
BROWN BANDS BETWEEN LIN&S 

Collar, cuff 5 and trousers, 
light brown. 
6hoc, light brown. 
Iacechands and llgs. 
very light red. 
Floor and hast of boat, 
light brown. 




WHERE GO THE BOATS? 

ark brown is the river, 
Golden is the sand. 
It flows along for ever, 
With trees on either hand. 

Green leaves a-floating, 

Castles of the foam, 
Boats of mine a-boating — 

Where will all come home? 

On goes the river 

And out past the mill, 

Away down the valley, 
Away down the hill. 

Away down the river, 

A hundred miles or more, 

Other little children 

Shall bring my boats ashore. 




My Children's Robert Louis Stevenson Paint Book, Copyright, 1915, by Lloyd Adams Noble. 




Sky,blue/(le<avl/ clouds white) 

LeaVLS.GRLEN ' 

BoYS HAIR, DARK BROWN- 
(jRASS, GRLLN (DAI5ILS WHITE,, 
WITH YLLLOW C&NTRES) 

Stonlavlry-uoht BROWN^" 
Brook, blui/ (l&av& white, \^ 
between double/ lines)*- 

L&AVE5 OF BOATS, DARK 
GREEH 



^REE-TRUNK, DARK brown. 

Boystace,, hands and legs 
very light red. 
-Trousers, blue. 
SHOE,, light srowr 




FOREIGN LANDS 

*|p into the cherry tree 
Who should climb but little me? 
I held the trunk with both my hands 
And looked abroad on foreign lands. 

I saw the next door garden lie, 
Adorned with flowers, before my eye, 
And many pleasant places more 
That I had never seen before. 

I saw the dimpling river pass 
And be the sky's blue looking-glass; 
The dusty roads go up and down 
With people tramping into town. 

If I could find a higher tree 
Farther and farther I should see, 
To where the grown-up river slips 
Into the sea among the ships. 

To where the roads on either hand 
Lead onward into fairy land, 
Where all the children dine at five, 
And all the playthings come alive. 




My Children's Robert Louis Stevenson Paint Book, Copyright, 1915, by Lloyd Adams Noble. 



SkY, LIGHT BLUE, — 

Leaves, dark grexn 
h&dge, and trels in 

DISTANCE,, LIGHT "<3f$LN 
^X)r5, 3RIDGL AND RQADr 
VLRY LIGHT MOWN 

Grass, very light gr&e,n 
Boy's shols, light brown 
Top of wall, light gray 




-H&RRIE/S, BRIGHT R&D. 
•TkUNK Or TREE,, DARK BROWN. 

Boy's hair.ylllow. 

IXcE,, HANDS AND LE-GS, 
VERY LIGHT R&D. 

Bricks in side, of wall* 

LIGHT RE/D. 



THE COW 



^fhe friendly cow all red and white, 
>fai I love with all my heart: 
She gives me cream with all her might, 

To eat with apple-tart. 

She wanders lowing here and there, 

And yet she cannot stray, 
All in the pleasant open air, 

The pleasant light of day; 

And blown by all the winds that pass 
And wet with all the showers, 

She walks among the meadow grass 
And eats the meadow flowers. 





My Children's Robert Louis Stevenson Paint Book, Copyright, 1915, by Lloyd Adams Noble. 



CoW.KEDDISH BROWN (LEAVE, 
WHITE- SPOT ON FOfrHEAD; 
AND ON LE/G'SE/LQW KNR&X 
H0RN3 t VE/RY LIOHT-BROWNA 

Hoof, dark brown 
Grass, gkjlu 

(IB MAKE REDt)ISH 

BROWN, MIX RE-D WITH B^oW 




Sky, light blvE/. 
f&n ce , dark brown . 
h air- ribbon, dark blue,. 
Hair, light brown. 

lV\CE/, HANDS AND L/E/G5. 

very light. r&d. 
■Apple>, light yellow. 
•Shols, dark brown. 



THE SUN'S TRAVELS 






vjj>he sun is not abed when I 

^* At night upon my pillow lie ; 



Still round the earth his way he takes, 
And morning after morning makes. 

While here at home, in shining day, 
We round the sunny garden play, 

Each little Indian sleepy-head 
Is being kissed and put to bed. 

And when at eve I rise from tea, 

Day dawns beyond the Atlantic's Sea; 

And all the children in the West 
Are getting up and being dressed. 





My Children's Robert Louis Stevenson Paint Book, Copyright, 1915, by Lloyd Adams Noble. 



•Sky, 



; LIGHT YELLOW 




T&NT3, LIGHT BRPWN.W1TH 
WD DESIGNS ON YELLOW BANDS <^ 
JRASS, GRlin 
JaRS, YELLOW; RED DESIGNS 

Food in jar, light mom 

CRADLE,, BROWN; R&D DLS1GNS 
ON YELLOW BANDS 
DoG, LIGHT BROWN 



^TLNTfOLLS, BR.OWN. 

•inside/ t£nt. dark 5r0wn 
-Hair, dark brown. 

IeCKLACL, -BRIGHT YELLOW. 

Mother dr&ss, dark y&llov 

JbBONS. RLD. 
FaC&S AND HANDS, VERY 
LIGHT R£D. 

Moccasins, light brown. 




BED IN SUMMER 

'n winter I get up at night 
And dress by yellow candle-light. 
In summer, quite the other way, 
I have to go to bed by day. 

I have to go to bed and see 
The birds still hopping on the tree, 
Or hear the grown-up people's feet, 
Still going past me in the street. 

And does it not seem hard to you, 
When all the sky is clear and blue, 
And I should like so much to play, 
To have to go to bed by day? 





My Children's Robert Louis Stevenson Paint Book, Copyright, 1915, by Lloyd Adams Noble. 



Curtains, light brown- 



Flamlvand candlestick?*^ 

YELLOW. \ * 

table/, gk&en- 
Stocking, srowr- 

DOO, LIGHT B^OVN - 
ShOE/S.MKKI^OVN- 



Floor.,vgry light ekown- 




'B&D-HE/AD, DARK BROWN. 
■HaIR,!^ BROWN 

EaCE/,HAND5 and bare* 
FOOT/VgRY LIGHT RLD. 

Plain squares of quilt, 
bright rld. 




A GOOD PLAY 

^e built a ship upon the stairs 

All made of the back-bedroom chairs, 
And filled it full of sofa pillows 
To go a-sailing on the billows. 

We took a saw and several nails, 
And water in the nursery pails; 
And Tom said, "Let us also take 
An apple and a slice of cake;" — 
Which was enough for Tom and me 
To go a-sailing on, till tea. 

We sailed along for days and days, 
And had the very best of plays; 
But Tom fell out and hurt his knee, 
So there was no one left but me. 





My Children's Robert Louis Stevenson Paint Book, Copyright, 1915, by Lloyd Ada-ms Noble. 



EtoYlS HAIR, DARK BROWN- 
Broom, LIGHT 5R0WR 
Flag, blue,, with white, stars- 
amd rld and white/ stripes: 
Chairs dark brown 

PlL/L/OW, BLUE, 

Pillow , light brown 
Pillows, blul- 

ALL EACL5, HANDS AND 

bare/ legs, vlry light rld 
Apple, and cake,, ye,llow 




WaLL.VERY LIGHT BROWN. 
>0Y'S TIE/, RED. 

Grousers, blue/. 

■Shoes and^ stockings/dark 

BROWN. 

Boy's hair, dark brown. 
!0llarand trousers, red. 
Upright parts or stairs, 
light brown, 
•Wall,, light brown. 
Jails, light gray. 



THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE 

"hen I was sick and lay a-bed, 
I had two pillows at my head, 
And all my toys beside me lay 
To keep me happy all the day. 

And sometimes for an hour or so 
I watched my leaden soldiers go, 
With different uniforms and drills, 
Among the bed-clothes, through the hills. 

And sometimes sent my ships in fleets 
All up and down among the sheets; 
Or brought my trees and houses out, 
And planted cities all about. 

I was the giant great and still 
That sits upon the pillow-hill, 
And sees before him, dale and plain, 
The pleasant Land of Counterpane. 




My Children'* Robert Louis Stevenson Paint Book, Copyright, 1915, by Lloyd Adams Noble. 



BbD-POST, IARK BRpWN 

Curtain, light GRE/bN 

\ALL, LIGHT 6RPWN 
CtiAIR.DARK^OWN. 
DoLL'S-SUIT.RE/D. 



Body or boat, grlln 

Blocks. red anT> grlli 

Soldiers hats, black 

Coats.rldtTRousl^s 
gra^ stands. £r(w^- 




JW.5 AND DOLLS HAIR.SROWN 
BoYiS HANDS AND, FAC&.AND 

d0ll5 face/, yery light r£,d. 
Cannon, gray, 
t&ddy-m/ar. ,5r0vn. 

I^M^CK-HORS&.LIGHT GREv&N. 

Tre/es, grbln. Animals, 
■roofs and stands, bkpvr 
Clothe/5 or NoAH*5 A*K 

FIGURED, R&D. 




THE LAND OF NOD 

rom breakfast on through all the day 
At home among my friends I stay, 
But every night I go abroad 
Afar into the Land of Nod. 



All by myself I have to go, 

With none to tell me what to do — 

All alone beside the streams 

And up the mountain-sides of dreams. 

The strangest things are there for me, 
Both things to eat and things to see, 
And many frightening sights abroad 
Till morning in the Land of Nod. 

Try as I like to find the way, 
I never can get back by day, 
Nor can remember plain and clear 
The curious music that I hear. 




My Children's Robert Louis Stevenson Paint Book, Copyright, 1915, by Lloyd Adams Noble. 



3kY, LIGHT YELLOW 

Butterfly dark yellow 
Girls hair, light brown- 
Girls face, and hand, very 

LIGHT Rt-D. 

Rabbit's coat, dark botn- 

RaBBITIS VEST LIGHT BROWN 

Girls dress, dark YELLOW- 
GlRLS SHOES, EftRK BROWN 

Mushrooms, dark yellow 




Leaves, dark green. 

'TrEE -TRUNK, DARK BROWN. 

Girls hair, light brown 
Gnomes' .suits and cars, dark 
brown. Wings, light green. 
Gnomes 1 faces, light brown. 
Girl's facl.hands and barl- 
feet, very light red. 
Candle-stick, dark green. 
Grass, dark green. 



MARCHING SONG 

| [jO)ring the comb and play upon it! 
Marching, here we come! 
Willie cocks his highland bonnet, 
Johnnie beats the drum. 

Mary Jane commands the party, 

Peter leads the rear; 
Feet in time, alert and hearty, 

Each a Grenadier! 

All in the most martial manner 

Marching double-quick; 
While the napkin like a banner 

Waves upon the stick! 

Here's enough of fame and pillage, 

Great commander Jane! 
Now that we've been round the village, 

Let's go home again. 




My Children's Robert Louis Stevenson Paint Book, Copyright, 1915, by Lloyd Adams Noble. 




Sky.BLUL 

IjboFS, LIGHT BROWN 

GraS5,GRLLN 

Car BRpWN.RlBBON.DARK BROWN. 

TlLsBRjGHTRLD 

Suit, brown 

DrLSS,LJGHTRLD 

boys 5h0ls and stockings 
and girls .5h0es, park brown 
Sidewalk, light brown 



CaNL, DARK BROWN. 

Collar and til. bright red. 
•t^m5 of drum, bright rld. 

how AND TOP Or DRUM, LIGHT 

brown. Sticks, brown. 

"1rOU5LR5.DAT?K BROWN. 

\5hols and stocking:*, brown. 
%0u3£r3 and shoe/5, bright 

RLD. 

All facls, hands and sard 
llgs. ve/r.y ught r&d. 




FAREWELL TO THE FARM 

he coach is at the door at last ; 
The eager children, mounting fast 
gfj And kissing hands, in chorus sing : 
Good-bye, good-bye, to everything ! 

To house and garden, field and lawn, 
The meadow-gates we swang upon, 
To pump and stable, tree and swing, 
Good-bye, good-bye, to everything ! 

And fare you well for evermore, 
O ladder at the hayloft door, 
O hayloft where the cobwebs cling, 
Good-bye, good-bye, to everything ! 

Crack goes the whip, and off we go ; 
The trees and houses smaller grow ; 
Last, round the woody turn we swing ; 
Good-bye, good-bye, to everything ! 




My Children's Robert Louis Stevenson Paint Book, Copyright, 1915, by Lloyd Adams Noble. 



Girds hat and coat shown 

BoY'S CAP, BROWN 

GlRCS DRE/SS, 30Y3 COLLAR.; 

RBD. 

StAGL-COACH, DARK BRO 

Trunks, light brown 
Hen, yellow; mrk brown 
tail-feathe/r5, re/d comb 
Grass, green- 




Sky, U GMT BLUE/. 

! BlG HATS, YELLOW, RED BANDS. 

>ABYS SHOES, R&D. 
BoYS TROUSERS, BROWN. 

Mother's dress, brown, 
glrus dress, light re/d. 
All hair and shoes, b^own 

IaCLS AND HANDS, VLRY LIGHT 
RLD. 

Path, light brown. 



FOREIGN CHILDREN 

ittle Indian, Sioux or Crow, 
Little frosty Eskimo, 
Little Turk, or Japanee, 
0! don't you wish that you were me? 



You have seen the scarlet trees 
And the lions over seas; 
You have eaten ostrich eggs, 
And turned the turtles off their legs. 

Such a life is very fine, 
But it's not so nice as mine: 
You must often, as you trod, 
Have wearied not to be abroad. 

You have curious things to eat, 
I am fed on proper meat; 
You must dwell beyond the foam, 
But I am safe and live at home. 

Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, 

Little frosty Eskimo, 

Little Turk, or Japanee, 
0! don't you wish that you were me? 




My Children's Robert Louis Stevenson Paint Book, Copyright, 1915, by Lloyd Adam 



I)ACKGROUND,V£RY light brown 
Japanese, kimono, light ylllow 

Ytm IN HAIR, 5ASH, COLLAR 
AND SKIRT LIGHT RLD 
ESKIMO'S STOCKINGS, LIGHT BROWN 
L&AVL WOOD-WORK WHITE; 
DoLL\5 DRLSS,RLD 

dolus drl5s, light brown 
all fac£>5, hands and bare/ 
l&gs.ve/ry light rld 
All dolls' hair, ylllow 




^IuRKS CAR JACKET, SHOES AND BAND 

on Indian's hlad, light rld. 
Indian'5 blanket and moccasins 
and Turks trousers ylllow. 
-boeder on blanket rld. 
hair,bkpwn; ribbon, 3rjght j?ld. 
dolls drlss, bright rld. 

GUCH-COV&R AND CUSHIONS, 
LIGHT BROWN. 
-5hols, DARK BROWN. 

•Floor, VLRY light brown. 




A Paint Book of Inspiring selections so planned 
as to cultivate the child's artistic tastes. Our 
device for indicating the colors that should be 
used, is unique. 




For sale at all stores where children's 
books are sold. If your local book- 
seller has not a supply in stock, 
please inform 

LLOYD ADAMS NOBLE 

Publisher 
31 West 15th Street, New York City 




The purpose of this book combines art with 
literature in the education of the child. The 
above outline drawing, which is to be colored, 
appears in the book opposite Stevenson's The 
Land of Counterpane. " 





.MOTHER GOOSE SONGS 
MY CHILDREN 



_f- 'SH?3K|§S| 



-...•^MOBEE.Publufve;- 



Every child in the Kindergarten and in the 
Nursery will love to have this book. It will 
help him to take his first step toward Blading. 



The cutting out of the pictures of this look is 
something more than an exercise in the use of the 
scissors, it is the means of strengthening the 
child ' s creative faculties. 



The first inexpensive collection ever published 
for home and school use of the more popu, 
Mother Goose and Nursery Songs. The music 
has been expressly arranged for children s voices. 




SHADOW 
PICTURES, 






III .,1^ ,» .. . ,, ..... I ■ . .. 1.1. 

HILMW 
~AP-B@K 



MY CHILDREN 
LOVE TO MAKE 

U.OYD ADAM S MOBLE. Publisher- 31 West 151 5f„ NewYork^ , ; 




If you want to make every mother you know 
truly happy, give her this book. It solves her 
most difficult problem! "What shall I give my 
children to eat?" 



Can you imagine a more entertaining book to 
place in the hands of children ? The suggestions 
beneath each picture make the book as instructive 
as it is entertaining. 



Encourage your children to preserve the pretty 
things they make at home and at school. Let 
each child have a scrap-book for his personal use. 




Children ] ove to Color and Fram 

Home Songs My Child 

Piano I 'iec M lildren Love 
ldren's Robi rt Louis Ste^ 



to Color (Pain 
olored Crayons My Children Use (assorted 
Children Use 
Paste My Children 
es My Children Love to Speak 
Vbout My Baby (Baby's Record B 



ither Loves 

3 My Sister L< 

My Father L 
Piano Pieces My M 
Pian 

Piano Pieces My Brother 






